DRC-CHINA COOPERATION: STRATEGIC MEETING WITH THE VICE-GOVERNOR OF HUNAN, CAO ZHIGIANG ON THE PROMOTION OF EXPORTS OF CONGOLESE AGRI-FOOD PRODUCTS TO THIS CHINESE PROVINCE
The Minister of Foreign Trade, Julien Paluku Kahongya, accompanied by Congolese economic operators in the production and export sector, is one of the distinguished guests of the China-Africa economic and trade exhibition which will be held from June 12 to 15 in Shanshan, capital of the Chinese province of Hunan.
The invitation was officially handed to him this Monday in Kinshasa during a strategic meeting with the Vice-Governor of Hunan, Cao, ZHIGIANG accompanied by around ten heads of large Chinese companies based in this native province of the former Chinese President, Mao Zedong.
At the end of this meeting, a joint commission made up of experts from the DRC and China was set up to identify the sectors of activity, the actors, the human and financial resources, but also to establish a timetable for the implementation of the road map, with the aim of increasing trade between the DRC and China through the province of Hunan, now ready to promote Congolese agri-food products through its distribution center for African products, declared to the press Zhao Bin, Chinese Ambassador to the DRC
Pleading for Congolese companies specializing in the agri-food sector to benefit from Chinese expertise in terms of technology, product certification with the construction of certified ultra-modern laboratories and exports, the Minister of Foreign Trade surrounded by Congolese economic operators working in the agri-food sector and the General Directors of ANAPEX and the OCC reassured his colleagues that the DRC is determined to increase the volume of its exports to China in several sectors including cocoa, coffee, pepper, soya and sesame
Note that Julien Paluku Kahongya insisted on pragmatism
